The list of what you cannot do in a synagogue is prodigious—from clapping and smoking to futzing with the change in your pocket. But what you won’t find on that list is spitting. In fact, in many Orthodox congregations, spitting is quite encouraged, and we can thank a certain prayer for that.
Aleinu, the prayer that marks the end of the daily prayer services, is an intense one: the first paragraph praises God, “who has not made us like the nations of the world…who has not designed our destiny to be like theirs…for they bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god who cannot save.”
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